Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sounder basis. To make it successful would mean a diminution in the required classroom routine and a decrease in the number of tests to compensate for the added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb as little as possible under the present system. But the ever-increasing number of students who aim to get the most out of their four years at a university would leave Harvard fitted to face the problems of the world...
There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...
...order that, until the official list is posted, there may be as little doubt as possible as to a man's classification, the following extract from the the Senior Class Constitution is given...
...candidate for an office below that of Marshal may, with his consent, be nominated by petition for the office of Marshal. His name in such a case shall be automatically erased from the ballot for the office for which he was originally a candidate. In any case of doubt as to eligibility or procedure in petitioning, advice may be obtained from a member of the Nominating Committee who may be found at the CRIMSON Building at 7 o'clock in the evening throughout the week...
...There is no doubt that the appearance of the teams in Pasadena would help in a large measure to quicken the Endowment Fund campaign on the Pacific Coast," said Major Moore, "and for this reason, if for no other, the invitation probably will be accepted. Several Faculty members of the Athletic Committee have intimated that they would favor its acceptance...